For the Foodies: Slow Braised Beef with Roasted Sweet potato and Pickled Vegetables

Cook a delicious meal with the winner in Buy West Eat Best WA's Celebrity Signature Dish! Peel ambassadors Mark Gibson from Today Tonight WA and Kenny McHardy cooked a delicious dish and we are sharing it with you: Slow Braised Harvey Beef shin with Roasted Sweet Potato, Pickled Vegetables and Mundella yoghurt. A true showcase of the very best of our Peel Region.

Slow Braised Harvey Beef Shin

1 Harvey Beef shin trimmed below knuckle (ask your butcher)

3 local carrots

3 onion

1 cup rosemary leaves

3 tsp seasoning mix

2kg fresh tomatoes

2L beef stock

100ml sherry vinegar

Local olive oil

Seasoning

1 1/2 tbsp flaky sea salt

1 tbsp raw sugar

1/2 tbsp black peppercorns

1/2 tbsp smoked paprika

1/2 tsp cumin seed

1/2 tsp mustard seed

Slow cooked sweet potato

4 local medium sweet potatoes

4 tsp seasoning (as above)

Mundella natural yogurt (to serve)

Local olive oil

Pickled vegetables

2 bunches baby carrots washed and cut into 1/4 lengths

300ml rice vinegar

200ml water

150g castor sugar

10g flaky sea salt

1 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp coriander seeds

1 tsp black peppercorns

1 tsp mustard seeds

Fresh parsley, mint and dill

How toSlow Braised Harvey Beef Shin

Preheat oven 180 degrees CelsiusTake beef shin out of the fridge and allow to come to room temperature. Rub with olive oil and seasoning and place in a deep roasting tray with chopped carrots and onions. Put beef in preheated oven and roast for 10 minutes.Remove from oven and add to beef shin the roughly diced tomatoes, garlic, rosemary, vinegar and stock. Cover with lid or 2 layers of tin foil and put back in the oven. Turn oven down to 140 degrees and cook for 8 hours.Turn oven up as hot as it can go and roast shin uncovered for a further 10 minutes to caramelise the meat.Slow cooked sweet potato

Take a square of tinfoil and place sweet potato into the middle with seasoning and oil, wrap up gently and place into oven on a tray with beef shinCook for 8 hours at 140 degrees and serve immediately with fresh Mundella yoghurtBaby carrots pickled

Put all ingredients (except carrots and herbs) in a pot and bring to the boilReduce by 1/3 and take off the heatImmediately add carrots and allow to coolTo serve

On a large platter garnish the beef shin with fresh rosemary leaves, lemon zest, fresh parsley and sea salt. Add Mundella yoghurt to the cooled sweet potato and the chopped fresh herbs and place alongside the baby carrots pickle. Enjoy with a Peel region red wine such as Malbec or Shiraz.